The Awareness Angle: Cyber Security Awareness and Human Risk

Jul 27, 20261h 11m#98

Two governments found out their data was gone this week. One because a hacker deleted everything and left a ransom note, the other because they finally noticed someone had been sitting inside their systems for ten months

Jul 20, 20261h 5m#97

This week the internet came for your fridge, your laptop and your DNA, and it wasn't subtle about any of it. Hackers hit Coca-Cola's dairy brand fairlife with ransomware and shut down US milk production. Mac users are un

Jul 13, 20261h 15m#96

Episode 96 of The Awareness Angle This week an insurance company leaked driver's license numbers for nearly 7 million people because one employee clicked a phishing email. Sainsbury's facial recognition system was 99.98%

Jul 6, 20261h 3m#95

iPhone 18 Pro design files leaked, Aflac gets hit for the third time in a few years, and a bank robber in London gets away with £117,000 just by wearing the right uniform. This week's episode has a bit of everything. Hac

Jun 29, 20261h 14m#94

GTA 6 scams launched within hours of pre-orders going live. Scattered Spider's teenage hackers pleaded guilty for the TfL attack, and one of them was hacking US hospitals while on bail. And a fake AI plugin passed every

Jun 22, 20261h 2m#93

This week the threats are getting bigger and the defences are getting stranger. A criminal gang hit a school system that holds records for eleven million kids, Americans lost a record three and a half billion dollars to

Jun 15, 202650m#92

ShinyHunters breached the University of Nottingham using a critical Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day, leaking passport numbers, National Insurance numbers, disability data and financial records for 455,000 students. If you stu

Jun 8, 202646m#91

NHS patients are only now being notified about a breach that happened two years ago. Hackers brute-forced Dashlane's two-factor authentication. The FBI has already spotted over 30 fake FIFA websites and yes, fifa.beer is

Jun 1, 202646m#90

Solo episode this week. A fake UK visa website left 100,000 passports in an open folder online. iPhone thieves in London are now threatening victims' families to get them to remove Activation Lock. California has sued th

May 25, 202651m#89

CISA left admin passwords and AWS keys on a public GitHub repo called "Private-CISA" for six months. A new macOS stealer called Reaper fakes Apple security updates to steal everything on your machine. And the 2026 Verizo

May 18, 202653m#88

This week the Canvas story is back. Instructure has paid ShinyHunters and says the stolen student data has been destroyed, but nobody in the security industry believes them. A telehealth platform breach exposed over 700,

May 11, 20261h 2m#87

Spirit Airlines shut down on May 2nd but nobody turned anything off. A security researcher discovered the entire booking system is still running, still taking personal details, and still attempting payment transactions f

May 5, 20261h 7m#86

This week on The Awareness Angle, we hit 1.2 million views on a single video across TikTok and Instagram, which is pretty wild for an independent podcast. Thank you to everyone who watched and shared. ADT gets breached f

Apr 27, 202659m#85

Roblox cheats at work lead to a full corporate breach. Half a million people's health data listed for sale on Alibaba by the researchers trusted to protect it. A $5 Bluetooth tracker in a postcard tracks a NATO warship f

Apr 20, 202652m#84

Nearly 800 Hungarian government passwords found in breach databases — including one from a colonel in charge of information security who used "FrankLampard". We break down how it happened, why it keeps happening, and wha

Apr 13, 202647m#83

This week: attackers are sending fake missile alert emails exploiting real Iran-US-Israel tensions to steal Microsoft credentials via QR code. We also cover a massive leak of sensitive LAPD police documents, an AI model

Apr 7, 20261h 13m#82

Chinese hackers just broke into the system the FBI uses to track its own surveillance targets. The White House released an app that security researchers took apart and didn't like what they found. LinkedIn has been secre

Mar 30, 20261h 6m#81

Episode 81 of The Awareness Angle. This week: a hack at Ajax Amsterdam let attackers steal season tickets and quietly lift stadium bans. A security scanner got compromised and was used to backdoor LiteLLM, a tool downloa

Mar 23, 202656m#80

This week's human cybersecurity news . A US general leaves classified military documents on a train, over 8 million anonymous crime tips are exposed in a major data breach, and a Chrome extension with a million users and

Mar 16, 20261h 1m#79

This week it's a busy one. We've got stories about hackers targeting your phone, your bank account, and even your doctor's equipment. There's a nasty trick doing the rounds that looks just like a Google Meet update, a ma

Mar 9, 20261h 0m#78

A hacker didn't need a team of experts. They just needed to convince an AI chatbot they were a penetration tester. What followed was the systematic breach of ten Mexican government agencies, 150GB of stolen data, and rec

Mar 2, 20261h 2m#77

This week on The Awareness Angle, attackers ditch malware and pick up the phone, fake QR codes hit real parking meters, and even your weather app might be quietly fingerprinting you. We start with Breach of the Week, as

Feb 23, 202656m#76

This week on The Awareness Angle , Breach Watch is busy. We cover 73,000 patients hit in an Arizona healthcare breach, stolen Eurail traveller data now up for sale, a phishing led incident at fintech firm Figure , 600,00

Feb 16, 202657m#75

This week on The Awareness Angle, trust is stretched across platforms, partnerships, and AI powered systems. From 70,000 government ID images exposed in a Discord age verification breach, to staff data leaks at the Europ

Feb 9, 202652m#74

This week on The Awareness Angle, trust keeps breaking in places it was assumed to be solid. From a state linked supply chain attack slipping malware into trusted software updates, to ransomware actors claiming access to